WASHINGTON — President Trump’s national security adviser said Sunday that the violence that broke out in Charlottesville, Va., ‘‘meets the definition of terrorism.’’

H.R. McMaster told ABC’s ‘‘This Week’’ that ‘‘anytime that you commit an attack against people to incite fear, it is terrorism.’’

One person died Saturday when a car rammed into a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville as tension boiled over at a white supremacist rally.

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McMaster called it ‘‘a criminal act against fellow Americans. A criminal act that may have been motivated — and we'll see what’s turned up in this investigation — by this hatred and bigotry, which I mentioned we have to extinguish in our nation.’’